A 16-year-old security researcher from India plans to present a malware application for Windows Phone 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in New Delhi,India,on Nov.24. According to a brief description of the presentation on the ...
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At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
IBM,Good Technology and several other mobile device and app management software vendors today separately announced a variety of new or enhanced products. The announcements primarily focus on providing tools and services to help IT shops ...
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Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
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Acer has started shipping the C7 Chromebook netbook starting at$199 with Google's Chrome OS and Intel's Celeron processor. The low-power laptop has an 11.6-inch screen,and is for those who do most of their computing on the web,Acer said ...
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During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
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Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
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One in three physicians planned to buy the iPad Mini even when its existence was just a rumor,according to a poll of doctors by medical app developer Epocrates. According to 90%of the respondents to the survey,the smaller size of the ...
The number of consumer smartphone and tablets brought into workplaces will more than double by 2014, according to a recent study, but security on the endpoints is lacking. Juniper Research claims the number of devices being used in the ...
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After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
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Analysts predict that cloud computing will play a larger role in mobility and consumerization of IT, Windows Phone and Android tablet sales will grow and there will more hot-desking in large organisations in 2013. IDC head of research ...
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EMC today announced a series of software upgrades for eight products in its Documentum content management platform and its Captiva document capture software line. The upgrades,which address cloud-based document management,add mobile ...
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Apple's iPad has lost ground in the tablet market,with Android devices gaining momentum during the third quarter,according to a report by IDC. Q3 saw worldwide tablet shipments reach 28 million,up 50 per cent on the same period last ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Mobile business intelligence (BI) has started to cascade down in organisations over the past year, Adrian Simpson, chief innovation officer, SAP UK, will tell delegates to IRM UK's Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence conference in London ...
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